@hoohoowozza<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nOld news now\nI guess, however my week watching wrestling began with NJPW Dominion from\nOsaka, which in my opinion was an excellent show. Not to go into too much\ndetail, but Moxley\u2019s match with Shota Umino was a great way to kick off the\nshow, especially the visual of Jon Moxley carrying the defeated Umino to the\nback and also declaring his intention to participate in this year\u2019s G1\ntournament, which as of today became a reality. Stand out matches have to be\nIshii v Taichi with Ishii tossing out Taichi\u2019s gimmicks and forcing him to\nactually wrestle a match, which in his favour he did, and showed he is a decent\ntalent when he has to be. Good to see Ishii win a title, albeit the Never\ntitle, however let\u2019s hope he gets a run with it. Ospreay\/Dragon Lee was ridiculously\ngreat, and Ibushi\/Naito was ridiculous! Stll good though!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kenta\nKobashi\u2019s Fortune Dream series entered its sixth year! The annual Kobashi\nproduced show brings various, mainly independent talents from various\npromotions together in multi-man matches mostly, although this show carried one\nsingles match as Joshi legends Meiko Satomura and Nanae Takahashi went to a\ntime limit draw. A five match card this is an easy watch with some hard hitting\naction and well worth your time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fell behind\nslightly but managed to watch MLW Fury Road show from a couple of weeks back.\nThe finals of National Openweight Championship tournament ran to a finish with\nAlex Hammerstone winning the inaugural championship defeating Brian Pillman Jr\nin what was a rather one sided affair with Hammerstone looking strong, and a\ndecent prospect for the future if used properly. Great Physique, look and a\ndecent move-set, Pillman however looked a little sloppy at times. Jimmy Havoc\nfailed to beat Teddy Hart for the Middleweight title in a match of two side\nwith Hart looking crisp and his fluidity with his moves looking great against\nHavoc who, as usual went hardcore with his arsenal, but the match worked.\nAnother decent show from MLW except there was barely any sound to the ring\nentrances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Japanese Joshi Promotion Stardom announced the participants for their upcoming 5* Grand Prix starting August 18th<\/sup>. Quite a mixture of talent, eighteen entrants this year with details on the We are Stardom website, or Pro Wrestling Journal Twitter feed. I will be covering the event for the website so stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n@WynterStorm24<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week has been a lot of ups and down (play on words because I love Simon Miller!). Smackdown was trash and NXT was just average. But I got to go to my local promotion and I had an absolute blast. They\u2019re gearing up for their biggest event of the year next month and I also met and talked to a wrestler I hadn\u2019t heard of before and will definitely be checking out. And of course, I left with a few purchases from him as well. I organized a lot of my wrestling stuff in my house as well so it has more of a flow to it. I recently\\obtained a Sasha Banks pop figure and now all I need is a Bayley pop. For some reason, she\u2019s so difficult to find. The only thing I need to figure out now is where to put my Shield plaque. They essentially have their own little space so maybe I\u2019ll put it there. The announcements for the G1 were made and I\u2019m excited to watch it. I tend to have a hard time keeping up with it but I always manage to keep up and now my grandmother\u2019s into New Japan too so she might be the one giving me all the updates. I also need to Mox to come out with a shirt or hoodie that says \u201cAmazon Prime for head trauma\u201d as that is one of the best things I\u2019ve ever heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
@RoxBlackburn<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My week in wrestling comprised of clawing my way through Raw. And thanks to Wynter, I didn’t even bother with Smackdown for the fifth week in a row.
It absolutely baffles me that Shane McMahon was given 40 minutes of TV time across both Raw and Smackdown, yet Finn Balor v Shinsuke Nakamura was a Smackdown dark match, which took place after 205 Live aired.
Tickets for AEW’s event in August sold out in less than 15 minutes and apparently more than 160,000 people tried to get tickets and most were unsuccessful. This not only solidifies their PPV quality but also means they have a foundation for more throughout this year and next. For those going, enjoy!
Even wrestling social media has been quiet this week, although I have seen Becky Lynch’s red carpet pictures for the MTV Movie & TV awards and she is looking particularly fierce!
My buddy over at Taker UK is a busy bee on the UK convention scene. Please go over and say hi if you see him any events.
NXT and NXT UK are tearing it up at Download Festival, which was an absolute mud bath before the weekend, hopefully it’s dried up now.
Mark Andrews’ band, Junior, are due to release new material this week and Jeff Hardy sang live yesterday with his band Peroxwhy?gen. I’m not massively feeling his musical abilities, I never have, but one of his band members, Junior Merrill, was in a great band called Fueled by Silence.
We’d love to hear what you guys have been up to this week. Please share your stories with us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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